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Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

Orison Swett Marden

Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
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Desire Destiny Habit Thinking
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
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Achievement Dreams Greatness Man
You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.
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Attitude World Yourself
Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
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Man Opportunity Wait Weakness
This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?
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Lost Man Material Test Yourself
The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.’
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Business Customer Gold Man Place Rule
Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. It is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.
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Happiness Quiet Reality Recognition Simplicity World
You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
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Failure Himself Measurement
He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t.
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Himself Inspirational Mindset Thinking
All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
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Accomplishment Goal Greatness Impossible Time Yourself
A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.
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Condition Desire Force Strong Success
We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.
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Generosity Harvest Order Production
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
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Ability Creation Yourself
People do not realise the immense value of utilising spare minutes.
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People Time Value Worth
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
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Greatness Hope Medicine Tomorrow
Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
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Man Occasion Opportunity Strong Weakness Yourself

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

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Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

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